Bodo Friedrich Borries von Ditfurth  
(16.12.1852 - 21.02.1915)
place of birth:  Bielefeld-Gadderbaum
Königreich Preußen:  Landwehr-Insp,  Generalleutnant ch.
Bodo von Ditfurth served as an officer in the Prussian Army and also as Pasha in Sultan Abdulhamid II's Ottoman military forces. He returned from Turkey in 1909 in order to take command of a Prussian regiment and then a brigade. In the months leading up to Great War mobilization, General von Ditfurth was awarded the character rank of Generalleutnant and appointed as Inspector General of the Landwehr Inspectorate in Cologne. General von Ditfurth was married to Paula Freiin von Blomberg with whom he had nine children.


 
 
Generalleutnant  22.03.1913  (charakter)
 
 
 

  
 
Curriculum Vitae  
   
02.05.1878 Sekonde-Lieutenant
16.11.1880 Premier-Lieutenant
13.05.1887 Hauptmann
27.01.1896 Major
26.04.1901 Oberstleutnant
00.00.1901 Deutsche Militärmission im Osmanischen Reich - Konstantinopel  (Chef of German Military Mission in Turkey)
15.06.1905 Oberst
20.04.1910 Infanterie-Regiment ,,von Horn” (3. Rheinisches) Nr. 29 - Trier  (Cdr)
18.10.1910 Generalmajor
18.10.1910 10. Infanterie-Brigade - Frankfurt an der Oder  (Cdr)
22.03.1913 Generalleutnant  (charakter)  =  Exzellenz
22.03.1913 Landwehr-Inspektion - Köln  (Inspector General, Territorial Reserves)
   
Great War  
   
02.08.1914 Landwehr-Inspektion - Köln  (Inspector General, Territorial Reserves)
21.02.1915 deceased
11.11.1918 Waffenstillstand von Compiègne  (Armistice)
   
   
 

06.05.1914
 

 

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